CITIZENS JOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL SPACE, FREEDOM AND PROTECTION OF THE LAW
Citizen journalism in the digital realm, its freedom, and legal protection are certain things. Through normative legal research using statutory and conceptual approaches, this article focuses on the discussion of citizen journalism in the digital realm, freedom of citizen journalism, and its legal protection in journalistic practice. This problem is examined considering that technological developments, the digital era, and the internet have encouraged the creation of citizen journalism practices that cannot be avoided. The results of the study show that citizen journalism activities in the digital realm are the most effective tool for consolidating the voices of citizens in involving themselves, their groups or communities in government. With its freedom, citizen journalism has the freedom to involve itself in seeking, obtaining, possessing, storing, processing and conveying information to the public using various media. And with ethical freedom which is freedom as a human right. Legal protection for citizen journalism in journalistic practice is an effort to protect that given by the government to citizen journalism in journalistic activities. Legal protection can be given to citizen journalism that carries out journalistic activities in accordance with journalistic standards, rules, and ethical codes.
Citizen Journalism in the Digital Realm, Freedom, Legal Protection